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"Now there is a problem. The yield of sugarcane planted in our area seems not as high as that in Taiwan." A cadre from Chongzuo raised his hand.
Xue Muqiao: "Sunlight and heat conditions, sugarcane species, planting technology, and chemical fertilizers are the three decisive factors for the yield per mu of sugarcane. Chongzuo is one of the most southern regions in Guangxi, and the light and heat conditions are definitely not bad. It's better than what I do now. For a class survey, the cadres in charge of agriculture sitting here raise their hands first, and then report the sugarcane yield per mu in your place one by one."
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France, the town of Sevres on the outskirts of Paris.
At 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, a villa in Sevre Town was brightly lit.Inside and outside the house, some people in black suits were busy. In the dark area outside the lights, more than a dozen bodyguards in black suits set up a cordon on the lawn 50 meters away from the villa, and no one was allowed to approach.
The Rolls-Royce of Donald Logan, private secretary and assistant to British Foreign Secretary Lloyd, drove to the main entrance of the villa.Getting out of the car, Donald Logan pressed his top hat, turned up his coat collar, looked around vigilantly, and after confirming that there were no other observers, he walked quickly into the villa.
A Rolls Royce leaves, and a Chevrolet drives in.Major General Mel Amit of the Israel Defense Forces is even more concealed than Donald Logan. He wears a pair of sunglasses at night, a peaked cap and a mask to cover his head and face tightly.
Mel Amit was the last to arrive.Led by a black suit, Amit walked into the villa and walked from the stairs to the small attic on the fourth floor of the villa.Donald Logan and the host of today's meeting, French Foreign Minister Christian Pinault, were already waiting for the Israeli representatives in the small attic.
"I'm really sorry," said Christian Pinault, "to have to start the conversation in such a cramped place, but what we're going to talk about needs as few spectators as possible."
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After Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal in July 1956, Britain and France secretly prepared for military intervention.The British Ministry of Defense began to formulate a plan to invade Egypt on July 7. The basic idea was to destroy all aircraft of the Egyptian Air Force by air strikes, and then land in Port Said to seize the entire Suez Canal.
In 1956, Europe imported 200 million barrels of oil from the Middle East every day, of which 120 million barrels had to be shipped through the Suez Canal.At this time, the United Kingdom has not yet discovered oil fields in the North Sea. At this time, it is a net importer of oil, and the amount of oil is still very large.Not to mention that Britain's colonies, spheres of influence, and Commonwealth system in the Far East all need to travel quickly through the Suez Canal.
Whether it is the operating income of the Suez Canal or the strategic significance of the canal, it is of great importance to the United Kingdom.
Britain does not intend to go to war alone, he needs to bring in a few allies to save military expenses.Both France and the United Kingdom have been deprived of their equity in the Suez Canal, and France intends to send troops to interfere in Egypt.Israel especially wants to beat Egypt, open the mouth of the sea, and occupy the Sinai Peninsula as Israel's southern buffer, so Israel can also use it.
In France, Nasser and Hitler have been compared. Newspapers and magazines have drawn many caricatures, pasting photos of Nasser who is giving a speech with a mustache, saying that Suez is Sudeten, and whoever makes peace with Nasser is appeasement.
In an interview with reporters, French Prime Minister Gail Mollet also took out the "Revolutionary Philosophy" written by Nasser and said: "This is Nasser's "Mein Kampf". If we still treat this madman like Chamberlain It would be foolish and cowardly to back down step by step."
However, although it made a gesture of crushing Nasser, France did not intend to do it at first.The Egyptian army is..., our French army... Well, anyway, if we lose to Egypt, wouldn't it embarrass the French again?
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"Mr. Pinault, I just want to confirm: Does France intend to restore Suez by force? How much force does France intend to use?" asked Donald Logan.
"We could send the whole main body of the Mediterranean fleet, including the battleship 'Jean Bart,'" Pinault said, "and the French air force. Our air force would very much like to use the airfields in Cyprus to bomb Egypt, or use the airfields in Israel. If you confirm that you will also intervene armed to resolve the Suez crisis, then it will be simple."
Logan and Pino looked at Mel Amit.
"By 7:[-] p.m. today, the Israel Defense Forces have completed their assembly at the border, and General Dayan has entered the frontline headquarters." Mel Amit said slowly.
Pino raised his wrist to look at his watch. The time was already 10 o'clock in the morning on October 23.
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Moscow.
"There are serious disagreements within the Hungarian Workers' Party on some fundamental policies, which are already different from the essence of Poland."
Vice Chairman Liu, who flew to the Soviet Union, held talks with Khrushchev.
Khrushchev: "We hope that Chinese comrades will play an important role in communication and mediation between the Soviet Union and Hungary."
Vice Chairman Liu: "But Comrade Zhukov told me that the Soviet Red Army is ready to march into Hungary."
"This is the only action we can take if the situation in Hungary continues to deteriorate."
Vice Chairman Liu: "I would also like to ask comrades in the Soviet Union to consider whether the Soviet Union committed the mistakes of great power chauvinism and great nationalism during Stalin's period, which led to an abnormal state of relations between the Soviet Union and Hungary."
Khrushchev: ...
Vice-Chairman Liu: "It is true that Poland is a problem within the party, and signs of counter-revolution have appeared in Hungary, but we must also consider history and reality, the communist movement and the history before the establishment of the Soviet Union. 1849 In May of 5, at the invitation of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, Tsar Nicholas I sent more than 20 troops into Budapest to suppress the revolution of 1848....Yes, this was indeed a matter of Tsarist Russia before, and it was incompatible with the Soviet regime, The Soviet Union has nothing to do, but we think so, and it doesn’t mean that all Hungarians think this way.”
Khrushchev: ...
Vice-Chairman Liu: "If the situation in Hungary deteriorates to the point where you feel that you need the intervention of the Soviet army to solve the problem, then the intervention of the Soviet army will not be able to solve the problem."
Bulganin: "We have studied two methods, one is the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary, and the other is the suppression of Soviet troops."
Vice-Chairman Liu: "Soviet troops did not withdraw from Hungary, but in fact they did not take repressive action."
Bulganin: "?"
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From the late night of October 10 to the early morning of the 22rd (European time), both the Eastern and Western camps suppressed their anxiety in the dark, communicating and negotiating.
Paris is the capital of conspiracy tonight, and the Sephora secret meeting of Britain, France, and Israel will be held until five o'clock in the morning.
Logan recalled many years later that the evening's secret conversation was "conspiracy upon conspiracy, and then there was a hidden conspiracy at the bottom".To avoid trouble, no written record was left of the meeting.But when it was daylight, French Foreign Minister Christian Pinault actually took out a 3-page treaty, calling it the "Sevres Protocol".
Donald Logan was taken aback: "Mr. Foreign Minister, we are not going to leave any paper records."
Pinault: "If no written record is left, we cannot guarantee that all parties will unanimously implement the consensus reached in today's talks to the end."
Mel Amit: "I remember very clearly the consensus reached today. The three countries do not need too complicated cooperation."
Pinault insisted on signing.
After several rounds of persistence and refusal, Mel Amit couldn't hold on and said he could sign.Donald Logan then signed the protocol, but he added himself: If Foreign Secretary Lloyd objected, his signature would be invalid and the protocol would be overturned.
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After talking all night, Donald Logan walked downstairs with fluttering feet, got in the car and left.
This morning, 5000 students crowded into the auditorium of the Budapest University of Technology in Hungary.
Chapter 140, down to 30%
On the evening of the 23rd, Donald Logan came to Villa Sevres again, this time still with the French foreign minister and the Israeli general.Yesterday's protocol determined that Britain, France, and Israel would take military action against Egypt, but who should go first, where to attack, how many troops to use, and how to coordinate the airports of France and Britain still have to be resolved.
"The ultimate goal of the war should be the collapse of the Nasser government," said French Foreign Minister Pinault. "Nasser incited the nationalist frenzy of the Egyptians. As long as he is still in power, Egypt will always have illusions about the Suez Canal. Hello. , Shall we say hello to The Hague first? Their special prison for war criminals may not have been repaired for a long time."
Donald Logan: "No, we just need to control the Suez Canal, make sure it's not taken back by the Egyptian army, and then we can negotiate with Nasser."
Mel Amit said he would not intervene in the dispute between the two countries.Israel has also fully planned the war. It doesn’t matter whether Britain and France take back the Suez Canal or continue to blow up Cairo to destroy the Nasser government. As long as they occupy the canal, the Sinai Peninsula east of the canal will definitely belong to Israel. Cross the Suez Canal.
Logan and Pinault spent the rest of the night discussing how to deal with Egypt after the war.
On the morning of October 10, when Logan floated out of the villa, he felt that he couldn't stand it anymore.I slept in a hotel in Paris for most of the day and one night before flying back to London on the morning of the 24th.
British Foreign Secretary Lloyd has been in London all the time. He can't go to Paris. As long as Lloyd appears in Paris, reporters will see it and think of it as "the secret talks between Britain and France to retake the Suez Canal."
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"Mr. Lloyd, we have agreed on all the major agendas, and the war is about to begin. As a guarantee of joint action by the three countries, I have brought back this, which may be called the Sever Protocol."
Logan handed the three-page protocol to Lloyd. Lloyd looked as if he saw a large anti-tank grenade, still smoking.
"What? What? What!" Lloyd yelled. "There can be no paper records of the meeting! This is a disaster!"